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Category: Campania

The Campania Plain, Part 6: Facing Neapolitan Volcanic Risk

March 24, 2019 BJ Deming

We started this series with a view of the Campania Plain and Naples as a sort of “living Pompeii” before that city’s burial in AD

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The Campania Plain, Part 5: Neapolitan Volcano Hazards

March 17, 2019 BJ Deming

Campania has good reason to be proud of its volcanoes: Asleep, these beautiful but strange mountains draw tourists and also serve as ground water aquifers

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The Campania Plain: Part 4, Campi Flegrei

March 10, 2019 BJ Deming

Gah! But close up, Campi Flegrei (the “Burning Fields”) is actually quite pretty. Look for saddle-shaped Vesuvius in the background from time to time, starting

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The Campania Plain: Part 3, Vesuvius

March 3, 2019 BJ Deming

It’s time to look out over the Gulf of Naples from Mount Vesuvius on a sunny Mediterranean day! That landmass you see at the start,

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The Campania Plain: Part 2, Ischia Volcano

February 24, 2019 BJ Deming

No, Italy’s beautiful Monte Epomeo, shown above, is not the volcano. This mountain is “just” a block of 50,0000-year-old greenish ignimbrite pushed up by volcanic

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The Campania Plain, Part 1: Introduction, and a Hurricane of Ash

February 17, 2019 BJ Deming

Pompeii sits on the Campania Plain–a rich land that stretches, between the sea and the Apennine Mountains, down Italy’s Mediterranean coast south of Rome to

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